From 2016 (YouTube Edition): Aeronautical Decision-Making and Risk Management Now Flow Into Aviation Training… While at EAA AirVenture 2016, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, heard a lot of talk about the new FAA Airman Certification Standards (ACS). He decided...
“Having both Air Traffic Management programs at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses approved for this critical FAA initiative to strengthen the air traffic controller pipeline demonstrates the high level of training and education Embry-Riddle provides. We are proud to...
Discrete Code As used in the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS), any one of the 4096 selectable Mode 3/A aircraft transponder codes except those ending in zero zero; e.g., discrete codes: 0010, 1201, 2317, 7777; nondiscrete codes: 0100,...
Aero Linx: British Gliding Association (BGA) The British Gliding Association is the governing body for the sport of gliding in the UK and members are the 76 clubs that provide gliding facilities for their members – clubs that are spread...
Also: Douglas Day Event, Tidal Flight And DeltaHawk, Runway Lighting Systems, Supersonic Regs British Airways suspended one of its pilots who was drunk while traveling as a passenger and caused a disruption in the cabin, with the captain returning to...
Purpose Of The Flight Was For The Accident Airplane To Be Photographed By Another Pilot From A Different Airplane Analysis: The pilot stated that the purpose of the flight was for the accident airplane to be photographed by another pilot...
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DETRESFA (Distress Phase) [ICAO] The code word used to designate an emergency phase wherein there is reasonable certainty that an aircraft and its occupants are threatened by grave and imminent danger or require immediate assistance.
Aero Linx: Swift Museum Foundation The Swift Museum Foundation was started by Charlie Nelson, our President, over 40 years ago with an ad in Trade-A-Plane to Swift owners inquiring about any interest in forming a type club. It started as...
Decision Altitude (DA) A specified altitude (mean sea level (MSL)) on an instrument approach procedure (ILS, GLS, vertically guided RNAV) at which the pilot must decide whether to continue the approach or initiate an immediate missed approach if the pilot...